Let there be no doubt where Maine’s liberal congresswoman holds her core sympathies.
Not in Maine, where she has languished since 2009 in the lonely U.S. House seat waiting for a U.S. Senate seat opening.
Chellie Pingree traveled last week to Minnesota to rally the anti-ICE crowd because that’s where her heart is – and has always been.
Pingree was born in Minneapolis, on April 2, 1955, and attended high school there.
She then brought her radical ideology with her in a suitcase to attend University of Southern Maine.
Then, realizing it wasn’t leftist enough, she packed up and headed to College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor to complete her bachelor’s degree.
Chellie and her baggage ended up on the island of North Haven, where she became the tax assessor and began building her big-spending portfolio as a state senator.
Chell at the time was fantasizing about “living off the land,” according to FarmAid.org.
That endeavor was far from an original idea.
The young leftist hijacked that novel approach from Helen and Scott Nearing, authors of “Living the Good Life” and known as “advocates for simple living.”
“It was 1971: Pingree had just finished high school in Minnesota and was looking to connect back with her family’s farming roots,” FarmAid reported ten years ago, six years into Chellie’s never-ending congressional career. “Though her grandparents were dairy farmers, she never imagined she too would end up as a farmer.”
Pingree set up shop on North Haven as an “organic farmer.”
She “wanted the sustainable farm she imagined the Nearings had; she had two acres of vegetables, three jersey cows, one hundred chickens, and a few pigs,” says FarmAid. “She sold her vegetables and products she made, like milk and butter, to summer tourists passing through.”
Then came Nebo Lodge Inn, an island tourist trap she opened that’s managed by her daughter – the one now running to keep the Blaine House in the hands of high-taxing Democrats.
“When we’re discussing policy in Washington, I can say ‘I know a lot of small farmers or I know this particular experience,’” the congresswoman told FarmAid.
Pingree hasn’t had much time, however, to till the land, as the saying goes.
She’s been quite busy – yes, in Washington – staying ahead of the IRS amid her unlawful stock trades.
Going back to her homeland of Minnesota and fighting immigration enforcement is a great distraction from the vagaries of complying with legally-mandated financial regulations designed to prevent federal lawmakers from dabbling in the money markets.
(Pingree was caught six months ago failing to report some of her trades, as reported then by The Maine Wire.)
Finances have never been a big worry for Chellie Pingree, not only because she’s seen her personal wealth dubiously balloon while on a congressional salary.
Chellie’s nest egg also enjoyed a friendly boost from one of her multiple ex-husbands – hedge-fund billionaire Donald Sussman.
Sussman is also an “ex” of Maine’s biggest liberal legacy newspaper, the Portland Press Herald, of which he was a majority owner during his marriage to the good congresswoman.
“Poor” Chellie, she needed a break from the tough life of a wealthy congresswoman and island “farmer” so last week she jetted to her real home – Tim Walz’s whacky Minnesota, to lock arms with the violent, law-breaking ICE protestors.
Pingree was just dying to get out of her adopted “back to the land” state of Maine to show solidarity for Governor Tim and Ilhan Omar, who does a great job representing Minnesota’s illegals in the same liberal lawmaking body as Maine’s “organic farmer.”
At a joint event, Omar referred to our country as the “G*ddam United States” in a clip that has now gone viral across the internet.
Keeping that kind of rabid company, one could sympathize with Chellie wanting to secretly slink back via private polluting corporate jet to her North Haven vegetable garden.
Chellie Pingree, a true Maine immigrant – imported from the great state of Omar’s adopted lunacy: Minnesota
